Turtles and Splinter reactions to each Turtle's death

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

Originally Posted by Cipher

But certainly we can have discussion at a higher level that this. These "What Would This Character Do If ...?" threads are little more than poorly disguised requests for shlocky, summarized fanfiction. It's masturbatory. Not the end of the world, of course, but Zarius was pretty much on the money. In this case.

You've got a point. If people want to speculate about that kind of stuff, there's a fanfiction section. Or all that speculative stuff can be kept to one thread, like it was for a while.

I just don't think it does any good to complain and call people idiots and whatnot either, like what's been done in prior threads. If you don't like the topic, ignore it and keep pushing up the documentary topic through discussion of something you want to talk about.

[Doc_ock_4mugen]

But is it really fanfiction? I see it more as a creative excersise... a pseudo analysis of the characters and trying to predict the outcome based on what we know about the characters... Sounds like its almost on fanfiction territory, but this is general tmnt discussion so, nearly anything goes...

The point is that zarius once again stalked a topic to complain about not recieving any help on the Turtle Documentary and call us idiots...

Zarius: Live and let live, dude! If you don't like the post, ignore it... don't bump it with a rant on how people don't want to help on your project...

[shuriken]

Originally Posted by Scandia

Actually, I think the brother most upset at Raphael's death would be Mikey. The two of them are very close.

Ditto for Mikey's death- Raph would be the most upset.

For Donnie's death that would be a tough one. I can see all other 3 getting quite upset, since Donnie is kind to everyone and at the same time a bit reclusive.

And for Leo's death, probably Splinter.

Granted that Mikey and Raph are very close, but I feel that mikey would be able to cope with loss a lot better as opposed to Leo, especially the loss of a brother.
I agree with Raph being the most upset as well.
Splinter would take it hard for sure.
If the turtles died of either an illness or old age I think that they would all grieve, but they would het over it relatively soon and move on. Splinter died and they grieved for him and had a little funeral for their father. I think in those situations it's easier for people to cope with it due to the fact that they died "peacefully". As opposed to dying in battle.

As for the thread being masturbatory and self indulgent, I just think that discussing how the guys would react to the loss of a brother is something that comes as natural as talking about how they've grown throughout the comics series. They are warriors and the life a warrior tends to lead to a violent death. It would be interesting to see in a one shot comic how one turtle's passing away would affect the whole team.
This thread could be significantly worse in asking what do you think would be the most f**ked up way the turtles could die. THAT would be the kind of thread that I think relies on shock value and shock value alone. I do kind of feel bad for Zarius because he's busting his ass for this, and he's not getting the type of support that he would have expected. But at the same time being condescending towards people is a bad way of getting people to support you. my two cents.

[Donnie]

Well, there have been numerous side stories in which we get a glance at the future Turtles, and more times than not it is Donatello and Raphael who are alive. I remember in the Archie series there was a couple of issues with this. It doesn't mean Leonardo or Mikey died - but I think we can assume that Raph and Don make it through the years.

In TALES #41, we see a very possible future Leo. This could have easily been where Leo went while Don and Raph went off or were doing other things.

I really do not see any of the Turtles dying early in battle.

There was once this fan-fiction story called "Nirvana" that envisioned Donatello as the last remaining turtle living in Japan. Mikey died in battle causing Raphael to go balistic and attack Leonardo. Leo, thinking he accidently killed Raph, commited suicide. Raphael survived and went off on his own. By the end of the story, Raphael tracks down Don in Japan and they find eachother.

That's just a silly fan-fiction...but I thought it pertained to the thread.